I Ditched Costco. And I’m not looking back. I just couldn’t take it anymore. So a big thank you to everyone who chimed in last week and said it was OKAY to abandon that silly notion.

Here are some of the deals I snatched up this week:

Albertsons $ 15.28

Albertsons has medium eggs on sale for $0.99 a dozen* {with a limit of 4} so I grabbed 4 dozen of course. Our family goes through eggs like nobody’s business when The Girl is home so this was a great find.

Tillamook Yogurt was on sale for $0.38 each* so I grabbed 10 {the max allowed}. I loved the fact I could buy 10, and not a case of 24 or 36 yogurts like I would have had to do at Costco. Not having to remind my peeps to “take a yogurt in your lunch” everyday is a nice change. 😉

Tillamook Cheese was also on sale for $1.99 a package this past week. Luckily I was able to print off {2} $1.00 off cheese coupons before the print limit was reached {there was a coupon link at the bottom of the page, I’m not sure if it’s still there}. If you are still getting the newspaper each month, there was also a $1/1 Tillamook Cheese coupon in the 6/28 SmartSource you can use.

I also snagged 2 avocados and a red onion. Let’s just say it was nice not to have to buy 10 pounds of red onions when I only needed one.

*The prices I was able to get the items for above may no longer be valid.

Amazon prices can change super quick, so when I find a good subscribe and save deal on something, I simply add the item to my subscribe and save order for the next month. I like the flexibility of being able to add items to my list {and being able to delete them} before the shipment goes out. Sometimes I order toiletry products, sometimes food, but if I can’t find at least 5 items to get the additional 15% off discount, I won’t order anything at all.

Fred Meyer – $23.15

If you have been waiting for a great deal on peaches, cancel all your plans for this week because Fred Meyer has peaches on sale for $0.99 a pound!

On the agenda for this week:

Peach Jam. Slicing and Freezing Peaches for Smoothies and Peach Pies during the winter months.

Even though I spent a little more this week than I would have liked too, when I can get a deal on fresh produce, I snatch it up {and hope it all works out in the end}.

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I can’t believe I didn’t pack a costume!

Okay, so I don’t even know how to transition from the photo above to what groceries made their way into my home last week, so I won’t even try. But I do want to say this. Life is an adventure. Be spontaneous and live in the moment. You might just meet a super hero!

Here is a run down of all the food I purchased last week {and some free stuff too}.

I was planning on saving up all my swagbucks until the end of the year and using them around Christmas time, but I decided to cash them in to order a bunch of free food from Amazon.com instead.

The pancake mix, syrup, red vines, fruit leather, clif bars, mojo bars, peanut butter, canned corn and coffee were all free thanks to the points I had earned with my swagbucks over the past few months. Gotta love free food!

Fred Meyer $13.95

Normally I don’t buy Doritos, but since The Girl and I were headed out-of-town I decided to buy Monkey Boy and the Handsome Husband a wee bit of junk food. I also stocked up on 4 lbs of chicken breast at $1.79 a lb. As I was walking towards the produce section to pick up some broccoli for chicken stir fry I noticed a woman filling her cart with bags of rolls from the reduced bread section. On an impulse I picked up a bag full of 6 bagels and 2 croissants for $1.50. Not a fantastic deal, but still a decent one I thought.

Albertsons $6.36

Did you end up buying anything at Albertsons with this round of double coupons? I thought the deals were a bit of a snooze fest personally. The only groceries that made it back to my house were 2 gallons of milk @ $2.19 each, 2 packages of Nabisco Chips Ahoy {I doubled 2 buy 1 gallon of milk save $1.00 on cookies coupon} and some free Hostess doughnuts.

Talk about a totally boring week in the grocery department. Oh well, when you are trying to feed your family for only one hundred dollars a month, some weeks are better than others.

So how did you do this week? Did you:

A) Buy nothing, and use what was already in your pantry and freezer?
B) Go hog-wild buying up brie cheese, caviar and shrimp?
C) Just stocked up the basics? or
D) Found some pretty awesome deals at the grocery store and made out like a bandit?

Total Spent This Week $20.31Total Spent This Year $401.73 Total Spent This Year on Garden Seeds/Supplies $357.92

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I have a confession to make. Not every week can look like this one. I didn’t see any super great deals, freebies or anything I needed as I glanced over the grocery store ads. So I headed to Costco and ended up getting my shopping for the week over with in about 12 minutes flat. Saweet! I decided early on to spend my time clipping hedges rather than coupons last week and believe me, it was time well spent.

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Somebody used a few coupons this week. Oh wait, that was me. Ha Ha Ha. Rolling catalina coupons was the name of the game this week.

Here is how I did it.

To get the ball rolling I first had to pay $1.00 out of pocket for 2 pouches of StarKist Tuna. For every 2 pouches of tuna I purchased I received a $1.00 catalina coupon. I was then able to double the $1.00 catalina coupon {which made it now worth $2}. Essentially, for every 2 pouches of StarKist tuna I purchased, I made $1 in the form of a catalina coupon. I then went on to “roll” my catalina coupons to purchase things like fresh fruit, vegetables, ricotta cheese, bagels, PEPSI, butter and so on. I was also able to apply the doubled catalina coupons to other products to help soak up the cost as well.

Pretty freakin awesome if you ask me. It looks like we are good on tuna and almonds for the next 6 months.

Here are a few other items I picked up this week as well.

Safeway $.44 The food was actually free. I did have to pay $.44 for a stamp to mail in the “Try Me Free” offer.